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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (18949)	11/30/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Drew Williams	Respond to of 152472

<<Weren't your old handsets the so-called "bricks," if they were that old ?>> Jon, They were worse than bricks! Their guts (without batteries) were about the size of a hefty dictionary. But in this case, size did not matter. Both of my old cellular phones were hardwired into our cars. In that case, the only part I actually had to handle was the handset, which was small enough, and the coil cord, which eventually died, triggering replacement. The guts were mounted in the trunk or under the back seat (six cars altogether, each requiring different mounting strategies.) The advantage of these phones was that their output was the full 3 Watt legal limit for AMPS, so I was able to get the message out almost always when my more portable friends could not. This is, of course, completely different now with CDMA etc.